Coldwell Banker and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Coldwell Banker crossed with 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Coldwell Banker and 2008 — sum to $388,379. The cell holds 500 itemized contributions and 253 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Coldwell Banker hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred fifty-three donors and 500 lines in 2008 sit under the franchise brand as typed. Independent offices that listed a local legal name instead of Coldwell Banker are not in this cell. The FEC field is not a franchise roster. COLDWELL BANKER REAL ESTATE, CB RICHARD ELLIS, and REAL ESTATE BROKER occupation strings are other keys.

7.7% of the Coldwell Banker roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,020,860 ($5.0 million). The 2008 slice of $388,379 is about 7.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.3%. Treating 2008 as the Coldwell Banker FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,020,860 as the denominator for the 7.7% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $5,020,860.

500 contributions from 253 donors

Dividing $388,379 by 500 contributions yields about $777 per itemized gift. Dividing by 253 donors yields about $1,535 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

253 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Coldwell Banker 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Coldwell Banker is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Coldwell Banker to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $388,379 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 500 contributions, the 253 unique donors, and the 7.7% share of $5,020,860.

Limits of the Coldwell Banker × 2008 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $388,379. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a real-estate NAICS total and not a Coldwell Banker PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 253 donors, and 500 contributions. COLDWELL BANKER REAL ESTATE, CB RICHARD ELLIS, and REAL ESTATE BROKER occupation strings are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Coldwell Banker and 2008 together

Start with $388,379, then Coldwell Banker 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Coldwell Banker, 2008, $388,379, 500 contributions, 253 donors, 7.7% of $5,020,860, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.7% share, the 253-donor count, and the $777 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Coldwell Banker donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $388,379 in itemized individual contributions for the Coldwell Banker grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 500 contributions and 253 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,020,860 all-cycle figure.

What share of Coldwell Banker FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,020,860. The 2008 cell of $388,379 is about 7.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.3% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Coldwell Banker hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Coldwell Banker’s PAC or an official account?

No. $388,379 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Coldwell Banker. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a real-estate NAICS total and not a Coldwell Banker PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Coldwell Banker 2008 join?

Open Coldwell Banker 2008 for the cycle overlay, Coldwell Banker for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.